Weak Half for Chains
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 9/4/2006
Because of a production error, several figures on last week's table showing the revenue of the major chains were wrong. The corrected numbers (at right), show second-quarter sales for the chains down 2.3% in the second quarter and off 0.5% for the first half of the year. Sales at Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million were virtually flat in the first six months,while sales at Borders were down 1.4%
| COMPANY | 2005 | 2006 | % Change |
| Second Quarter | |||
| Barnes & Noble | $1,170.8 | $1,156.2 | -1.2% |
| Borders Group | 901.1 | 866.3 | -3.9% |
| Books-A-Million | 122.0 | 121.2 | -0.7% |
| Total | 2,193.9 | 2,143.4 | -2.3% |
| Six Months | |||
| Barnes & Noble | $2,268.0 | $2,270.9 | 0.1% |
| Borders Group | 1,758.4 | 1,734.1 | -1.4% |
| Books-A-Million | 234.7 | 235.0 | 0.1% |
| Total | 4,261.1 | 4,240.0 | -0.5% |
| Source: Reed Business Information | |||
